Best Gets Four Goals in the Second to in
8 - 1 Victory
January 3, 2012

On December 3rd, Point Edwards PeeWee Blackhawks hosted Strathroy Rockets Blue team and with a six goal second period came out with a 8-1 victory in Lambton-Middlesex league action.

The Hawks came out strong and forced the play into the Rockets end which paid off early when Smith scored from behind the Strathroy net to give the Point an early 1-0 lead. The Hawks continued the early period pressure keeping the Rockets off balance allowing Terpstra to wrap the puck from behind the net one minute later to take a 2-0 lead. The Rockets finally got their legs back and kept the Hawks away from their net for the remainder of the first period.

The Point got into penalty trouble early as they where sent to the sin box for tripping. With a man down and the Point forechecking in the Rockets zone, Best got the puck and shot a backhander that went off a Rockets player to give the Point a 3-0 lead. Shortly after killing the penalty, Strathroy put in a one-timer in front of a screened Hawks goalie to get on the board. From that moment on, it was all Point Edward as the Rockets couldn’t get any breaks. Hunking put one between the Rockets goalies legs from a great pass from Smith. Shortly thereafter Canie scored with a shot from the corner that beat the Strathroy goalie. Best would get three goals in the last five minutes of the period. The first would come by tipping a Riddell slap shot from the blueline. The second came off a slap shot with Hocking screening the goalie and the last came with Best carrying the puck end-to-end to beat a tired Rockets goaltender.

The Rockets came out in the third playing a defensive game and were able to keep the  game at 8-1 which is how it ended.

Blackhawk’s Scoring Summary